Name Henry 6th Died 1987, United Kingdom | Books No Regrets, Ermine Tales Siblings Evelyn, Lady Beauchamp | |
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Children Henry Herbert, 7th Earl of Carnarvon Similar Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, Henry Herbert, 3rd Earl of Carnarvon, Henry Herbert, 2nd Earl of Carnarvon | ||
Henry George Alfred Marius Victor Francis Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon (7 November 1898 – 22 September 1987) was a British peer. He was the son of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon and Almina Wombwell, whose biological father was banker Alfred de Rothschild.
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Life
Styled Baron Porchester from birth, he inherited the Earldom of Carnarvon on the 1923 death of his father – who was famously funding archaeologist Howard Carter when he discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun. The 6th Earl attributed the death of his father to the "Curse of Tutankhamun", claiming that the moment his father died on 5 April in Egypt, the family dog howled and died a sympathetic death at Highclere Castle, the family seat. In his memoirs, he described an unloving upbringing by his parents. After his father died, he became responsible for the upkeep of Highclere Castle while his mother refused him an inheritance. She remarried only eight months after the death of her first husband.
Marriages and issue
Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon married Anne Catherine Tredick Wendell on 17 July 1922 and they divorced in 1936. They had two children:
Henry Herbert, the 6th Earl, following his divorce from Catherine, married Tilly Losch (former wife of Edward James) on 1 September 1939: they divorced in 1947.
His obituary by Hugh Massingberd famously described him as a "most uncompromisingly direct ladies' man".
Publications
Late in life he published two books of memoirs: